JULY 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2083

Rural Land in Nelson Land District open for Sale or Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Rough broken country, covered with fern, with a little bush along the creek forming the northern boundary. Access by unformed road, distant about nine miles and a half from Westport.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in Nelson Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-six of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section two of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say,—

1. The rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of selection on and after the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, at the rental specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said land may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Land Act, 1892,” as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone, and shall not be purchased for cash.

3. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the land enumerated in the said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for a period of four years from the date from which such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land during such period.

5. After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of four years shall not be demanded: provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—BULLER COUNTY.—KAWATIRI SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Heavy-bush Land.

Level agricultural land; good soil; covered with mixed bush; part subject to flood from overflow of River Buller in very high floods. Access by Nine-mile Road, distant about two miles from Westport. This section has a small frontage to the Westport-Reefton Railway now in course of construction.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned: Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres, more or less, being Section No. 11, Block IX, Cambridge Survey District (Karapiro Settlement). Bounded towards the south-west, north-west, and north-east by Lot No. 9, Karapiro Settlement, 458·2, 862·4, and 469·8 links; and towards the south-east by a public road, 862·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19202/112, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For gravel purposes.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.